North Cascades Press: 15 books

Melanie Holmes has her hands full when 15-year-old Keith and 13-year-old Anne react badly to Melanie's impending divorce from their father. Only four-year-old Jeffrey is his usual sunny self. Further complicating her life is Melanie's attraction to Sam Hudson, the detective who goes to her...

Dannilynn Kelly may have been date-raped, but she sets aside how badly her first year at college ended, eager to work at Joel Taylor's veterinary clinic on Cedar Island. There she meets Ben Edwards, a veterinary extern. His friendship becomes her key support when she discovers she's pregnant. Determined...

At Jane Collins' five-year high school reunion party in small town Evergreen, Washington, bad boy and law school wanna-be Chet Barton surprises Jane by rescuing her from a would-be rapist. Although she is intrigued by Chet, her guardian Bert doesn't trust the young man with the bad reputation. In...

Change is scary, and Suzanna Wallace knows she has to take the plunge after her husband's sudden death. Her grown daughter promises to take care of her, "just like Dad did," without realizing how chilling those words sound to her mother. Small changes—buying a dog, and getting a...

Gretchen Martindale, a former foster child, steps up when Laine, 12, and Nettie, 5, need a home after they run away from their foster dad whom Laine suspects is molesting Nettie. Gretchen's heart becomes entwined with the girls and she decides to adopt them, creating the family she thought she'd never...

Talented real estate broker Olivia Brown has a simple goal: find a family for her grandfather's spacious old home and move him into a more manageable place, even though her late father warned her never to represent a relative.  Architect and Southern charmer Beau James, is the last buyer Olivia...

Decades after the boating accident that Trish Barton believed took the life of her unborn son's father, she learns Denis is alive. His grown son, Chet, is just as thrilled as she is. Not so much her wealthy, controlling husband, Richard, who persists in making her life miserable, even as she sues...

A plane crash and dangerous hike out of the Idaho mountains cements a friendship between Carrie and Brian that neither can deny. He wants that friendship to blossom with the attraction he feels for her, but she is engaged and feels guilty that she's attracted to Brian. Quentin suspects Carrie...

Seventeen-year-old Isabella Campbell is forced to give up her newborn daughter. Twenty-plus years later, Destiny gets the surprise of her life when her birth mother, now a librarian in Evergreen, Washington, contacts her. Despite Destiny's adoptive mother's suspicions about Isabella, Destiny...

Veterinarian Joel Taylor has loved his wife, Angela Wright, a family physician, since they met in college. At a conference, he has a drunken one-night fling with an old girlfriend—the biggest mistake of his life. Ridden with guilt, he is desperate to preserve their marriage, begs forgiveness...

Single mom Amanda Gardner begins her first academic appointment at private Buckley College in northwest Washington state, eager to begin a new life, pay off her school loans and become established in her career as an English professor. Two men complicate her life: Carlton Winslow, with whom Amanda...

Eden Brinker is eager to rejoin the work force now that her children are in school. Then she learns she's pregnant. Her mixed feelings about adding another child to their family turn to apprehension when she learns her baby may carry a genetic marker for a fatal disease. Meanwhile, someone...

Gillian Griffiths is flummoxed about what to do after she is unexpectedly fired from her job of more than twenty years. While trying to repair her professional life, she steps way out of her comfort zone and signs onto an online dating service as one way to accomplish a do-over. To her amazement,...

Single father Owen Haskins is worried about his emotionally troubled 7-year-old son, Ian.  The brilliant little boy is placed in Faith Russell's second-grade class after they move to East Shore on Cedar Island. Although Owen is attracted to her, he isn't sure Faith is the right teacher for his son. Faith's...